DigitalOcean Internal Load Balancer (ILB) is now Generally Available

Internal Load Balancer (ILB) is now generally available (GA) for all DigitalOcean customers. Earlier this year, on October 17, we announced early access (EA) to Internal Load Balancer, one of our latest Networking feature releases. October 17 was a while ago, so here is a refresher on Internal Load Balancer (ILB):

DigitalOcean Internal Load Balancer (ILB) is a regional load balancing solution designed to help facilitate more secure and efficient routing of internal traffic for private workloads. Unlike public-facing load balancers, the ILB operates within a private network, using private IP addresses to distribute HTTP, TCP, or UDP traffic across resources like Droplets and Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters. This helps to ensure that traffic remains isolated from the public internet, enhancing security and performance.

• Simplified Management: Create an ILB in a few clicks and scale your private workloads. No more manual workarounds.

• Private load balancing: ILB allows you to distribute traffic using private IPs, helping to ensure that your internal workloads remain secure and shielded from the public internet. Unlike our HTTP Load Balancer, an ILB comes with private-IP only.

• Secured global scaling: Combine Internal Load Balancer with Global Load Balancer (GLB) to scale your workloads globally while keeping the backend services scalable, secure and isolated. Check out the guide on how to connect regional load balancers to GLB.

• VPC peering support: Leverage Internal Load Balancer together with VPC peering to enable secure, private communication between services/pods across different VPCs.

• DOKS service connectivity: You can expose DOKS services over the VPC network using Internal Load Balancer, keeping traffic internal. Read the tutorial on how to create an Internal Load Balancer in DOKS using K8s annotations.

Join our Product Manager, Udhay Ravindran, as he walks you through a demo of Internal Load Balancer.

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If you need help getting started, check out these load balancer resources: